Political Science: Race and Politics
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Course Introduction
This course explores the complex intersection of race and politics, primarily within the context of the United States but with comparative global perspectives as appropriate. Students will examine how racial identities and issues have shaped political behavior, party alignments, public policy, voter participation, and representation. Major topics include the historical and contemporary impacts of race on policy development, political movements, and the structure of political institutions. Through an analysis of key texts, case studies, and critical debates, the course encourages students to assess the role of race in power relations and evaluate efforts toward achieving political equity and social justice.
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Race in America 1st Edition by Matthew Desmond
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Chapter 1: Race in the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Race,ethnicity,and nationality are mutually overlapping _____________ that are mutually reinforcing and cannot be understood in isolation from one another.
A)racial categories
B)legal categories
C)symbolic categories
D)cultural categories
Answer: C
Q2) The _____________________ of race organizes people into bounded groupings based on their phenotype,______________,or both.
A)symbolic category;ancestry
B)historical development;culture
C)visibility;symbolic category
D)political history;culture
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Invention of Race
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Q1) Miscegenation,which helped blur the racial categories after Spain's conquest of the Aztec empire,can be defined as:
A)the legal contract binding indentured servants with their employers
B)passing ownership of land from one group to another
C)intermarriage and sexual intercourse between people with different skin tones
D)the method by which the Spanish attempted to maintain racial purity
Answer: C
Q2) What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?
A)They were rare examples of black slave owners.
B)They were former slaves turned abolitionists.
C)They worked closely with feminists to highlight the gendered aspects of race.
D)They were leaders of armed slave rebellions.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following was a catalyst for Europe's emerging racial worldview?
A)trade routes
B)evolving attitudes about gender roles
C)the continued influence of political monarchies
D)agricultural advancements such as the invention of the cotton gin
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Politics
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Q1) Which dominant black protest organization,which preceded the modern Civil Rights Movement and was founded in 1909 by black and white intellectuals,primarily battled racial domination in the courts?
A)Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC)
B)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP)
C)Black Panther Party BPP)
D)Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC)
Answer: B
Q2) President Kennedy coined the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats" to refer to political preference of universal,rather than race-based,policies as a strategy to eradicate inequality.Which policy most closely reflects that strategy?
A)the Voting Rights Act,which prohibited voter discrimination
B)proposals to ban the growth of the private prison industry
C)attempts by right-wing politicians to build a wall between the United States and Mexico
D)President Obama's advocating universal health care to combat race-based health disparities
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Economics
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Q1) According to social scientists,what is one result of affirmative action?
A)Most women and blacks feel that affirmative action has played a major role in their employment opportunities.
B)The self-esteem of women and people of color has been impacted negatively,especially with regard to self-efficacy at work.
C)Most women and people of color feel that their coworkers doubt their abilities because of affirmative action.
D)People hired through affirmative action policies do just as well as those not hired through affirmative action policies.
Q2) What are the two dominant sociological arguments about how ethnic enclaves affect immigrants' upward mobility and economic prosperity?
Q3) Explain the two sides of the debate surrounding the claim that high levels of immigration lead to racial disparities in income levels.Which side do you find most convincing and why?
Q4) According to Herbert Blumer,how can we best understand the way that people's personal feelings of prejudice and discrimination are shaped by how they perceive their employment opportunities?
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Chapter 5: Housing
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Q1) A banker that refused to give financially qualified buyers a mortgage because their desired home was in a nonwhite area marked as too risky for a loan was engaged in what discriminatory practice?
A)property covenants
B)redlining
C)blockbusting
D)gatekeeping
Q2) How did urban development projects immediately following World War II affect housing opportunities for nonwhites?
A)It gave them the opportunity to live in new,quality housing in the urban center.
B)It evicted many from their homes,forcing them into overcrowded slums.
C)It pushed them to the suburbs,but without access to public transportation.
D)It pushed them into white neighborhoods,resulting in integration.
Q3) Towns that hung signs reading "Whites Only within City Limits after Dark" were known as:
A)Jim Crow towns
B)suburbs
C)ghettos
D)sundown towns
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Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment
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Q1) The textbook authors pose the following question: "Why,we might ask,is the corporate supervisor who,by ignoring safety precautions in the name of profit,directly is responsible for a mine caving in and killing ten men merely fined or fired,but the crazed man who guns down ten people in a shopping mall receives the death penalty?" Answer the question and provide at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
Q2) According to the textbook,what is one political consequence of being imprisoned?
A)In many states,felons lose the right to vote.
B)People with criminal records are eliminated from job applicant pools.
C)Incarcerated parents miss out on key events of their children's lives.
D)Felons are more likely to vote than nonfelons.
Q3) What was the Jena 6 case,and what is one point the case highlights regarding race relations in the United States?
Q4) African Americans have grown so used to being pulled over by the police that many speak of being stopped on account of DWB.What does "DWB" stand for?
A)drinking while bad
B)driving while black
C)doping while beaten
D)daring white brother
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Chapter 7: Education
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Q1) Consider the following scenario: "A qualified applicant is rejected from a top university because the spot was reserved for another type of student." What is the most likely reason the seat was reserved for the second applicant?
A)affirmative action
B)legacy admit
C)athletic recruitment
D)STEM recruitment
Q2) Compare the findings of Annettte Lareau and the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley.What are the common findings? How would you suggest a local elementary school communicate research-based suggestions to teachers and parents?
Q3) While books that are often held up as classics in the U.S.educational system-such as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn-are widely regarded as being universally applicable,writing by marginalized groups-such as Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-is often considered:
A)a particular perspective
B)inferior to white writing
C)superior to white writing
D)unbiased and objective
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Chapter 8: Aesthetics
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Q1) From a sociological perspective,what is the problematic underlying assumption behind the increasingly popular question,"Why do white youth love hip-hop?"
A)Hip-hop has reached the status of highbrow culture.
B)Hip-hop has not reached the status of "true art."
C)White youth are out of touch with traditionally white music.
D)White youth are alienated from society.
Q2) An artistic depiction of American society that doesn't include nonwhites or any signs of racial domination is an example of what?
A)white aesthetic
B)racist aesthetic
C)antiracist aesthetic
D)highbrow culture
Q3) Elvis Presley's reputation as the "king of rock-and-roll" could be considered a result of:
A)lowbrow culture
B)antiracist aesthetic
C)strategic amnesia
D)racist aesthetic
Q4) How is The Brady Bunch an example of the white aesthetic in television?
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Chapter 9: Associations
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Q1) On one hand,racial tourism can denaturalize racial categories and provide people with a kind of racial freedom that offline life does not permit.On the other hand,too often racial tourism:
A)reinforces racial divides through stereotypes
B)leads to hate crimes and other forms of violence
C)creates racist ideologies where they didn't previously exist
D)erases the differences between virtual race relations and real race relations
Q2) Kathleen Blee conducted research on women who were involved in white supremacist groups and found that most:
A)were middle class,had college educations,and were gainfully employed
B)were working class,had some college,and were employed part-time
C)were working poor,had high school degrees,and had minimum wage jobs
D)were poor,were high school dropouts,and were unemployed and on public assistance
Q3) When people think about members of hate groups,they typically envision a certain type of person.What are the stereotypes about who joins hate groups? What did sociologist Kathleen Blee,who studies hate group joiners,find in her work about the members of these groups?
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Chapter 10: Intimate Life
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Q1) According to sociologist Anne Rawls,whites and blacks may occupy the same geographic space,but not the same ________________ space.
A)dynamic
B)socio-racial
C)interactional
D)community
Q2) The practice known as a "Mississippi appendectomy" is best described by which of the following?
A)a forced sterilization performed on a poor black woman in the South as practice for medical residents at teaching hospitals
B)slave masters forcing black women to bear children for their future profitability
C)the division of plantations into family-run "share crops" in Mississippi
D)the common practice of castration of males that was a part of Jim Crow era lynchings in the South
Q3) Explain how the high incidence of mothers giving birth out-of-wedlock while in poverty also means a relatively high level of out-of-wedlock births within the black and Hispanic communities.
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Chapter 11: Toward Racial Democracy
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Q1) An elementary school that recognizes holidays of various groups during the fall and into winter by having children make crafts relating to the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha,the Christian celebration of Christmas,the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah,and the American civic celebration of Thanksgiving,among many others,is most likely adopting which of the following frameworks?
A)color-blindness
B)multiculturalism
C)assimilation
D)abstract liberalism
Q2) Jeremy,who is white,has been thinking about how he teases his friend Lee,who is Asian,about being "good at math." Jeremy has recently come to realize that by making such claims,he is using a stereotype and has determined to stop making such jokes.This type of personal change is a result of:
A)the indirect influence of Lee's laughing at the jokes
B)the decline in the "model minority" stereotype for Asian Americans
C)the openness of Jeremy to deliberate reflection and self-criticism about his actions
D)the disruptions of the race traitor approach to interactions
Q3) Explain the steps of Park's race relations cycle.
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